Robert Rowland Smith compares Freud's work on the death-drive to other philosophies of death, particularly those of Pascal, Heidegger, and Derrida, and applies it to Shakespeare, Mark Rothko, and Katharina Fritsch. Smith asks whether artistic creativity... [More...]

A lively, intellectual romp through your average day introducing the reader to the history of ideas and applying philosophy to everyday life.

Smith shares a delightful, intellectual romp through life's milestones—being born, learning to drive, and getting married—all enlivened with apropos philosophy.

A lively, intellectual romp through your average day introducing the reader to the history of ideas and applying philosophy to everyday life.

A delightful, intellectual romp through life's milestones—being born, learning to drive, getting married, etc—enlivened with apropos philosophy.